Writing to Delight - Italian Short Stories By Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Informationen zum Autor By Antonia Arslan and Gabriella Romani Klappentext 'By recovering the lost masterpieces of Italian women writers, Writing to Delight adds significantly to the burgeoning field of canon revision in Italian studies. These carefully selected short stories, which have not previously been available in English, attest to the rich literary and cultural legacy of Italian women writers, and illustrate convincingly and often poignantly the restrictive ideal of female domesticity so prevalent in 19th century Italy. This is an extremely significant work.'-Laura Salsini Zusammenfassung Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Gabriella Romani Introduction Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy: Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings Matilde Serao Checchina’s Virtue Neera Paolina Aunt Severina The Lady of the Evening Marchesa Colombi Winter Evenings Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day Dear Hope Caterina Percoto The Bread of the Departed The Caning Contessa Lara The Coral Necklace Virginia Olper Monis Woes of the Middle Class Bruno Sperani Scorn for Life Afterword Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers ANTONIA ARSLAN Bio-Bibliographies of the Authors

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Arslan, Antonia (EDT)/ Romani Arslan, Antonia Romani Arslan
• Assisted by: Antonia Arslan (Editor), Gabriella Romani (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2006
• EAN: 9780802038104
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3810-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 95 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Paper; Toronto Italian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories